The Slug Cruiser

"One of the slug ships must know something about this advanced cruiser. Perhaps you can 'convince' them to tell you."

Layout A

"Designed for use inside nebula, this cruiser lacks sensors and relies instead on the guile and cunning of the Slugs."

• Default name: Man of War
• Starting Crew: 2 Slug
• Starting Reactor: 8
• Starting Systems:
  • Piloting (1)
  • Doors (2)
  • Medbay (1)
  • Oxygen (1)
  • Shields (2)
  • Engines (2)
  • Weapons (3)
• Starting Weapons:
  • Anti-Bio Beam
  • Breach Bomb I
  • Dual Lasers
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Slug Repair Gel
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 15 Missiles
  • 0 Drone parts
• Slots: 4 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system)
• Total Scrap Cost (Including Resources): 865
• Total Scrap Cost (Not Including Resources): 775

Unlock
See the Slug Home Nebula Surrender random event.
Alternatively, defeat The Rebel Flagship with the Mantis Cruiser.

Layout B

"This boarding ship has no medical facilities and must manage its explosives carefully to keep the crew alive."

• Default name: The Stormwalker
• Starting Crew: 3 Slug
• Starting Reactor: 7
• Starting Systems:
  • Piloting (1)
  • Doors (2)
  • Oxygen (1)
  • Shields (2)
  • Engines (2)
  • Teleporter (1)
  • Weapons (2)
• Starting Weapons:
  • Healing Burst
  • Artemis Missiles
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Slug Repair Gel
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 25 Missiles
  • 0 Drone parts
• Slots: 4 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system)
• Total Scrap Cost (Including Resources): 878
• Total Scrap Cost (Not Including Resources): 728

The Stormwalker starts with a teleporter but lacks a medbay, resulting in reliance on the Healing Burst to heal crew members.

Unlock
Earning two of the three Slug Cruiser achievements will unlock Layout B.

Layout C

"Slugs are often skilled in the arts of misdirection and manipulation. With Hacking and Mind Control systems, this ship capitalizes on that fact."

• Default name: Ariolimax

• Starting crew: 3 Slug
• Starting Reactor: 9
• Starting Systems:
  • Piloting (1)
  • Doors (2)
  • Clone Bay (1)
  • Oxygen (1)
  • Shields (2)
  • Engines (2)
  • Weapons (2)
  • Hacking (1)
  • Mind Control (1)
• Starting Weapon:
  • Chain Burst Laser
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Slug Repair Gel
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 1 Missiles
  • 15 Drone parts
• Slots: 4 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system)
• Total Scrap Cost (Including Resources): 1031
• Total Scrap Cost (Not Including Resources): 905

The Ariolimax starts with Hacking and Mind Control, making it effective at disrupting an enemy ship.

Unlock
Reaching sector 8 with the Slug Cruiser B on any difficulty with Advanced Edition Content enabled will unlock layout C.

Achievements

• We're in position! - While using the Slug Cruiser, have vision of every room on the enemy ship without functioning sensors.
• Home Sweet Home - Jump to 30 nebula locations before sector 8.
• Disintegration Ray - While using the Slug Cruiser, kill 3 enemy crew members with one shot from the Anti-Bio Beam.

Trivia

• Man of War:
  • The name could be a reference to the Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous jellyfish-like creature given the ship does look like a jellyfish.
  • Man of War is also the name of British Royal Navy expression for a powerful warship or frigate from the 16th to the 19th century.
• The Stormwalker: given that Slugs live in Nebulas the name could be a reference to the fact that this ship is made to go through such Nebulas.
• Ariolimax is the genus of the banana slug.